How can I create two boxes in the same line

Question

How can I create two boxes in the same line with words in between(as the picture below which I made using MS-Word)? I tried \makebox, \fbox or \minipage and none of them seem to be working, maybe because I am using verbatim environment at the same time. I am trying to make a section illustrating how to type Chinese in LaTeX.

I have tried

\fbox{
\begin{minipage}{5cm}
\begin{verbatim}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[UTF8]{ctex}
\end{verbatim}  
\end{minipage}
}

or any other possible combination of this three command but the typeset engine always give me errors says there is one extra { at the end of the code, even though it should be the right bracket of \fbox.

tcolorbox and its listings library can make such code boxes with basically any fancy decoration. — , Mar 22 '17 at 20:07
@Christian supplied you with a suggestion on how to solve your problem, however, if you want more extensive help with your question it would help if you could supply a MWE with what you have tried so far and to give us a starting point. — Timm, Mar 22 '17 at 20:37
@Timm Thank you very much. I have already editted my question. — Mia, Mar 22 '17 at 20:44
The problem isn't two boxes in the same line, it's putting verbatim inside a box. — John Kormylo, Mar 22 '17 at 22:03

Ignasi · Answer 1 · 2017-03-23T07:53:40.787

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With a tcblisting from tcolorbox:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\newtcblisting{mybox}[2][]{%
    nobeforeafter, listing only,
    box align=center,
    sharp corners, width=#2, notitle, size=fbox, #1}

\begin{document}

Either 
\begin{mybox}[after=\ ]{5cm}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[UTF8]{ctex}
\end{mybox} 
or 
\begin{mybox}[colback=white]{6cm}
\documentclass[UTF8]{ctexart}
\begin{document}
\end{document}
\end{mybox}
\end{document}

edited Mar 23 '17 at 07:53

answered Mar 22 '17 at 21:01

Ignasi

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The background colour of the right box hurts my eyes ;-) – Mar 22 '17 at 21:12
@ChristianHupfer Don't worry, it's easy to change. I hope you like it now. ;-) I've also improved the distance between first box and text. – Ignasi Mar 23 '17 at 07:55
I know how to change the background colour of a tcolorbox ;-) Yes, it's better now :D – Mar 23 '17 at 15:15
this would look nicer with not as much blank space at the right side of the boxes, and slightly larger spaces around "or", – barbara beeton Mar 24 '17 at 15:55

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '17 at 20:59

For an easy-to-use application, just set these in a tabular:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

Either
\begin{tabular}{ | @{\,} l @{\,} | }
  \hline
  \verb|\documentclass{article}| \\
  \verb|\usepackage[UTF8]{ctex}| \\
  \hline
\end{tabular}
or
\begin{tabular}{ | @{\,} l @{\,} | }
  \hline
  \verb|\documentclass[UTF8]{ctexart}| \\
  \verb|\begin{document}| \\
  \verb|\end{document}| \\
  \hline
\end{tabular}.

\end{document}

Another option using fancyvrb to save the verbatim content and use it inside \fbox:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fancyvrb}

\begin{document}

\begin{SaveVerbatim}{optA}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[UTF8]{ctex}
\end{SaveVerbatim}
\begin{SaveVerbatim}{optB}
\documentclass[UTF8]{ctexart}
\begin{document}
\end{document}
\end{SaveVerbatim}

Either \fbox{\strut\BUseVerbatim{optA}} or \fbox{\strut\BUseVerbatim{optB}}.

\end{document}

\struts ensure a consistent baseline with respect to the two verbatims.

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 22 '17 at 22:20

You can use fancyvrb facilities. Note that the environment's contents should be typed at the left margin, due to the properties of verbatim.

Disadvantage: you have to adjust the spacing following the environment.

Advantage: you don't have to guess the width.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fancyvrb}

\newenvironment{FBVerbatim}
  {\VerbatimEnvironment
   \begin{lrbox}{\FBVerbatimbox}
   \begin{BVerbatim}}
  {\end{BVerbatim}
   \end{lrbox}
   \fbox{\begin{tabular}{@{}c@{}}\usebox{\FBVerbatimbox}\end{tabular}}}

\newsavebox{\FBVerbatimbox}

\begin{document}

Either
\begin{FBVerbatim}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[UTF8]{ctex}
\end{FBVerbatim}
\ or
\begin{FBVerbatim}
\documentclass[UTF8]{ctexart}
\begin{document}
\end{document}
\end{FBVerbatim}
\,.

\end{document}

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 22 '17 at 22:02

1

Interestingly, \hbox worked (but not \savebox).

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
\setbox0=\hbox{\begin{minipage}{5cm}
\begin{verbatim}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[UTF8]{ctex}
\end{verbatim}  
\end{minipage}}%
\fbox{\usebox0}

\end{document}

answered Mar 22 '17 at 22:02

John Kormylo

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But lrbox works ;-). However I think you mean setbox vs savebox http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/46480/setbox-vs-sbox-and-savebox-what-are-the-differences-i-need-to-know-about – Marco Daniel Mar 22 '17 at 22:12

How can I create two boxes in the same line

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